Hideko Takamine is such an indefatigable ham in this: her cheekily sticking out her tongue reminded me of how all my family could (and often would) pose with our tongues touching our noses in photographs. I cried when she and Chishu Ryu got distracted from their serious discussion of her sister's (and his daughter's) marriage by the shared effort of trying to imitate a nightingale. Up-to-date things are things that never get old, like a camellia falling on a bed of moss or a walk with your sister after mutual heartbreak. Ozu's Sense and Sensibility.

—"I felt like I was being bought and sold."
—"As long as there are buyers, that's how it is."

agnes varda knows that sometimes the most powerful gesture in filmmaking is simply to let people speak.